Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Alan Bush
Alan Bush
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Alan Bush (1900–1995) was a British composer, pianist, teacher and political activist. A controversial figure, his work reflected his lifelong, uncompromising communist convictions; as a result he frequently struggled for recognition from the British musical establishment. From a prosperous middle-class background, Bush enjoyed considerable success as a student at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in the early 1920s. Many of his early works took the form of settings for pageants and workers' songs and choruses. In his maturer years he wrote symphonies, operas and other large-scale works, which found readier audiences in Eastern Europe than at home. In his prewar works, Bush's music retained an essential Englishness, but was also influenced by the avant-garde European idioms of the period. Later he sought to simplify this style, in line with his Marxist-inspired belief that music should be accessible to the mass of the people. Bush taught composition at the RAM for more than 50 years and was the founder and president of the Workers' Music Association. Since his death his musical legacy has been nurtured by the Alan Bush Music Trust, established in 1997. (Full article...)
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- Main editors: Brianboulton
- Promoted: 10 August 2017
- Reasons for nomination: anniversary of subject's birth (1900)
- Support as nominator. Brianboulton (talk) 11:12, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
- Support, good date and article --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:58, 7 November 2018 (UTC)]] by Wehwalt (talk) 22:05, 19 November 2018 (UTC)